I'm posting this mainly for my own recollection down the road, because the old gray matter doesn't seem to retain as much as it used to... ;^)
Last week I added an entry to the Mach-II wiki on using a Session Facade. This was my first time writing anything for the wiki, and I have to say that I really enjoyed working on it. Do you ever have those "Ah-ha!" moments when you're trying to figure something out and suddenly everything just clicks? Well, that happened to me 3 or 4 times while putting that wiki entry together.
The Mach-II team has announced that Mach-II 1.8 beta is now available for download, and they've already started working on versions 1.9 and 2.0 (with Mach-II 1.9 due out before the end of the year)!
Great! What's the Dashboard?
A couple of weeks ago I started playing around with Mach-II. I haven't been able to devote much time to working with it, mainly just at home at night and on the weekends, but so far I'm really liking what I see. I've never really used a framework before. Years ago I tried to fool around with Fusebox some (version 2 or 3, I think), but that didn't last long. I took a look at Model-Glue once too, but that didn't last long either. By them not lasting long, I mean a few hours at the most. Not that there was anything wrong with either of those frameworks, but at that time I just didn't understand frameworks or what they were for. I would download them, look at a few examples, scratch my head, and delete them. I just didn't get it.
